in that sense, she was a political wife and got out and didn't do much as lady byrd johnson. e deeper johnson was a reluctant campaigner. in fact, the democratic convention was built, staged in such a way to do a feature in mac and should and later but all bj had fallout because of the civil rights act, she did a whistle drop throughout the south to build support and it worked. he was very successful. so in that sense, jacqueline kennedy was not as political a spouse. she helped him with policy related things. she of course spoke french for willfully ended 1959, 1960, 61, china was becoming a problem. the best books on vietnam were in french because it'd been a french colonies in french intellectuals. she would translate books and articles for you into english so the president could rebound as a candidate. i want to get my days straight. she did this before he was in the white house. she was not as much involved in the day-to-day politics. that became a problem as first lady. she didn't understand why people would put on her schedule she had to have a lunch with the congressio